Rebecca Carter
Jan 7, 2018
Mantee-Rebecca Gibson Carter, 78, passed away Sunday, January 7, 2018. She was born on April 28, 1939 in Webster County, MS to M. L. Gibson and Frances Pauline Barton Gibson. She was a school teacher for Houston Public Schools for 32 years where she retired, and was a member of Mantee Baptist Church in Mantee, MS. She was a...
Kimberly Ann Haire
Jan 2, 2018
Coffeeville-Kimberly Ann Huffman Haire, 46, passed away Tuesday, January 2, 2018, at her home in Coffeeville, Mississippi. She was born on September 14, 1971 in Mississippi to Wayne Evans Huffman and Peggy Sue Tallent. She was a loving daughter, mother, and grandmother.
The Funeral Service will be Friday, January 5, 2018 at 2:00 P.M. at Houston Funeral...
Norma Inman Faulkner
Dec 18, 2017
Norma Inman Faulkner, 81, passed away Monday, December 18, 2017, at Fernbrooke Personal Care Home in Houston, Mississippi. She was born on November 21, 1936 to Eliard Norman Inman and Violet Lucille Morgan Inman. Norma was a retired Independent Insurance agent affiliated with The Associated Doctors Insurance Company. She was the former owner of...
Winburn Simpson Wofford Sr.
Dec 15, 2017
Winburn Wofford Mantee- Winburn Simpson Wofford Sr., 88, passed away Friday, December 15, 2017, at Twilight Nursing Home in Corsicana, Texas. He was born on June 9, 1929 to John Quince Wofford and Edna Inez McCoy Wofford. Mr. Wofford was a retired Navy veteran for 30 years where he served as a 1 st class Aviation Machinist in the...
Harold Johnson
Dec 12, 2017
Harold Johnson Houston- Harold Daron "Doodler" Johnson, 78, passed away Monday, December 11, 2017, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, Mississippi. He was born August 4, 1939 in Chickasaw County, Mississippi to Claude Gilbert Johnson and Rena Mae Moore Johnson. Mr. Johnson was a retired general contractor and owned his own construction business.
The Funeral Service...
Marion House
Dec 11, 2017
Marion House
Houston- Marion Russell House, age 78, passed away at Sentara Heart Hospital in Norfolk, VA on December 11, 2017 with her family at her side.
Born October 21, 1939 in Houston, MS, she lived in Houston and Laurel, MS and had recently moved to Virginia Beach, VA. Marion was a devoted member of...
Laverne Colley
Dec 2, 2017
Francis Laverne Johnson Colley, 85, passed away Saturday, December 2, 2017, at OCH Regional Hospital in Starkville, Mississippi. She was born April 19, 1932 in Mississippi to Joe Nelson Johnson and Mamie Lee Logan Johnson. Mrs. Colley was a retired clerk for GMAC. She was a member of the Eupora Church of Christ in Eupora, Mississippi.
The...
Jane Marie Mcdonald
Nov 18, 2017
Jane Marie Thomas McDonald, 87, passed away Saturday, November 18, 2017, at her home surrounded by her family in Houlka, Mississippi. She was born on March 30, 1930 in Chickasaw County to Oscar L. Thomas, and Jimmie Byars Thomas. Jane was a seamstress for Indianapolis Glove plant and she worked at Houlka Grain and Feed where she retired as a...
Ruth Powell
Nov 12, 2017
Powell, Ruth - Tupelo- Ruth L. Wooldridge Powell, 83, passed away Sunday, November 12, 2017, at her home surrounded by her family in Tupelo, Mississippi. Mrs. Powell was born in Houston, Mississippi on December 24, 1933 to Frank Edward Wooldridge and Lanie Leona McLaughlin. She was a homemaker and a member of First United Methodist Church of Houston, MS. The...
J.R. Penick
Nov 11, 2017
Penick, J. R. - Houston-J.R. Penick, 92, passed away Saturday, November 11, 2017, at his home in Houston, Mississippi. Mr. Penick was born in Vardaman, Mississippi on May 28, 1925 to John Russell Penick and Grace Ferguson Penick. Mr. Penick was a veteran of the United States Navy serving in WWII as a gunnery instructor. After the war he and...
Dora Woodruff
Oct 24, 2017
Woodruff, Dora - Houston- Dora Laverne Woodruff, 82, passed away Tuesday, October 24, 2017, at Floy Dyer Manor in Houston, Mississippi. Miss. Woodruff was born in Houston, Mississippi on January 4, 1935 to Robert Roy Woodruff and Olivia Lucille Blue Woodruff. She worked for American Trousers and Delta Trousers as a seamstress. A Graveside Service will be at...
Henry Griffin
Oct 24, 2017
Griffin, Henry - Houston- Henry Franklin Griffin, 80, passed away Tuesday, October 24, 2017, at his home in Houston, Mississippi. Mr. Griffin was born in Houston, Mississippi on October 13, to 1937 George Franklin Jim Griffin and Ludene Long Griffin. Henry Griffin was a retired truck driver for Franklin Manufacturing in Houston. A Memorial Service will be at...
Bobby Brooks
Oct 13, 2017
Brooks, Bobby - Houston- Bobby Dewey Brooks, 88, passed away Friday, October 13, 2017, at Floy Dyer Nursing Home in Houston, Mississippi. Mr. Brooks was born in Mantachie, Mississippi on August 1, 1929 Dewey Sampson Brooks and Kate Lou Loden Brooks. He was a retired owner of the Mug- N- Cone in Houston, the retired owner of Twin...
Corene Griffin
Oct 4, 2017
Griffin, Corene - Houston- Corene Hardin Griffin, 92, passed away October 4, 2017, at her home in Houston, Mississippi. Mrs. Griffin was born on June 20, 1925 in Blytheville, Arkansas to Thomas Noah Hardin and Mary Elizabeth Doss Hardin. Mrs. Corene Griffin was a homemaker and a member of Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church in Woodland, where she was...
Sarah Wright
Oct 2, 2017
Wright, Sarah - Mantee- Sarah Lou Griffin Wright, 92, passed away October 2, 2017, at the Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo, MS. Mrs. Wright was born on May 18, 1925 in Webster County, MS to Henry Watson Griffin and Bessie Emma Davis. Mrs. Wright enjoyed spending time with her family, gardening, and working in her store, The Novelty...
Junior Hicks
Oct 1, 2017
Hicks, Junior - Houston- Allen Junior Hicks, 84, passed away Sunday, October 1, 2017, at his home in Houston. Mr. Hicks was born in Vardaman, Mississippi on February 13, 1933 to Allie Mae Hicks and Lille Mae Stringfellow Hicks. He was a retired A machinist for B & W for 29 years. He also was a long time...
Cheryll Sullivan
Sep 29, 2017
Sullivan, Cheryll - Mantee- Cheryll Lynn Eaton Sullivan, 62 of Mantee, Mississippi died September 29, 2017 at NMMC in Tupelo, MS. She was born on July 4th, 1955 to A.J. Eaton and Lilah Harpel Eaton in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. She studied nursing at Reading Area Community College in Reading, Pennsylvania. She has been a registered nurse for the last...
Nancy Houk
Sep 23, 2017
Houk, Nancy - Houston- Nancy Jane Huffman Houk, 82, passed away Saturday, September 23, 2017, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, MS. Mrs. Houk was born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi on September 24, 1934 to Dezi Lee Huffman and Eula Lee Griffin Huffman. She was a housewife and loving mother and grandmother. Mrs. Houk was a member...
Travis Davis
Sep 21, 2017
Davis, Travis - Travis Davis, Christian, husband, father, grandfather, of Okolona, was carried to his eternal home on Thursday, September 21, 2017, after an unexpected illness at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS. Mr. Davis was surrounded by his wife and family when he made his peaceful heavenly transition. Mr. Davis was born in Houlka,...
Lorene Overcash
Sep 18, 2017
Overcash, Lorene - Lorene Brown Overcash, 88, passed away September 18, 2017, at the Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo, MS. Mrs. Overcash was born on October 6, 1928 in Chickasaw County, MS to David Columbus and Sallie Gann Griffin. She was a resident of Countrywood Plantation Assisted Living in Mantachie. She was a member of Macedonia Methodist Church...
